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I must say the ART aspect is also intriguing / captivating and something to aspire to in itself as much as Ballet or Piano etc

Good reading thanks for the input folks... was away for a day or so

You just describe 90% of the population haha

Billy Hicks = legend

I think next week we may get Teen dies from practicing Qigong... Or Herbal tea causes schizophrenia In line with Cannabis will kill you and Organic food is poisonous LOCO and humourous + again highlight the massive silencing in the MSM... which says more than anything else really Why do we never hear of Alcohol kills X ppl every year Pharma drugs kill X ppl every year Medical mishaps kill X ppl every year Your own Gov kills XXX people every year The SILENCE is DEAFENING

Aren't they standard questions beforehand? Unless he told them he wasn't on anything when he was...

I am going to call disinfo on this one too haha My general approach to MSM related things is... nothing is what it seems.

... we do not live in an absolute reality... (from our present perception/awareness etc) If Tao was fully manifest within everyone... If everyone was a Buddha? can you imagine? But this is not the case... Not everyone is trying to do good either... some people are malicious // they know exactly what they are doing. Some people are just plain apathetic You have empathic people to psychopathic people The difference is... you know better @ et-thoughts If God is all there is.... how can one not be God? It is impossible... Now I say people/ all creatures are at different levels of God realization Or Oneness with the Great Tao...? or Buddha Nature? Whichever one prefers

Yes I agree with this and as 宁 also said.... detoxify Purify the Temple! Make the ground sacred build from there

If everyone tried to make it 100% good it would be good. Everyone knows good from bad... it is inherent, it is inescapable - some just to prefer to ignore that feeling... desensitized. If everyone made the effort... Balance is not good v evil You don't grow a flower by sometime nurturing it and sometimes pulling it out of the ground. Growing a flower is about balance... the right amount of water... the right amount of sunlight etc. Balance is perfection Perfection is what we all are striving toward Perfection is what pulls us forward Perfection is the unobtainable The Divine discontent? Becoming more and more perfect Sometimes I apply the as above to below / made in his image If I have the desire for perfection, does nature strive for perfection? Nature appears to be move toward higher order? Sometimes I think.... All these people praying to God etc... What if God fully manifest itself into all creation... there is no God outside of us... we are all God... becoming God... or Gods? Maybe we should all start acting like Gods? Am I allowed? Will I allow myself? What if God was an Apple Tree and we are the Fruit... the destiny of the fruit is to seed and become an Apple Tree too? Some say... God being the only thing in existence truly must be very lonely... kind of said to think about it really haha If I were God... another one of my contemplations Maybe I would create other Gods... like a self replicating cell? ever expanding... into infinity Is God / Tao trying to Know itself? through Us... US being God? Man trying to know ourselves hmm haha!

Not quite the one I was after... though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqmkRrFYO1w&feature=BFa&list=WL4C774A4ADEA0897D

I would say techniques allow you to better recognize who you are, with the expanding of ones awareness / know thyself I would say no technique but simple mindfulness (is that a technique?) also helps to ^ Or even just the desire/ true desire... things will come Sometimes we don't really get a chance to figure out who we are and what we want until we have put some time away for that contemplation.... thanks for the reminder haha Though my contemplation of Who am I?... generally results in... I don't know. haha Everything and No thing? Unless we go deeper somehow and gain experiential knowledge / knowing / wisdom Which is behind mind? I am unsure I am trying to find the Alan Watts videos where he says... come off it Shiva.. haha

Options are Traditional Korean Karate Wing Chun Sakura Hana Ryu Muay Tai Aikido + The Australian Academy of Tai Chi I would like to get into Kyudo I think Or Tai Chi ... All speculation at present hah... Systema is still of interest MA isn't all that popular where I live I'll just continue with physical / mental exercise I gather your practice consists of Mo Pai Neikung and? are you working toward the no contact aspect demonstated in the video above (whether that demonstration is authentic or not) or more in line with the feats of Shaolin monks?

Yes Why is important... Why... has been popping up a lot these past couple of days Motivation = Purpose ^ though this isn't in line with eastern thought / Buddhism / Taoism really... (Buddhism more so) I spent some time trying to erase myself hahah.... doesn't really get one very far.

I enjoy the poems the paintings the flowers

+ they have billions of $ at stake They make more money from people being sick / dying than people being happy and healthy If people at a vast scale came to the understanding that simple, good, wholesome food etc is all it takes to maintain health + cure they would be out of buSINess. ^^ which people are actually beginning to come to this understanding and moving away from the establishment... hence all the recent propaganda scaring / deceiving people eg the Organic food is no different to GMO + crops using pesticides etc The pursuit of the dollar over common decency is... enraging Peace "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food," Hippocrates 500BC odd

This is nonsense // propaganda from the establishment to scare people aware from a mind expanding plant. Why such the heavy emphasis on this plant in particular? Why not cocaine? or other synthetic drugs / or pharma drugs that kill 1000s + people every year. Cannabis has actually been shown to cure http://tiny.cc/wz9fkw

I use to say OM AH HUM BENZA GURU PEMA SIDDI HUM a few hundred times + I found mostly to 1- to still the mind with his rhythmic elements / it would seem to exhaust the mind and the mantra would eventually fade into pure silence Though I try a number different things.... I really need to stay with just a few techniques and push them to the nth degree Only 23 - just browsing until I find something that really strikes a cord! STRUM! Harmonious resonance

Ah yes, I have that book - good stuff I think exercise + MA does.... hm perhaps not... maybe you either have it or you don't haha In terms of Will I was going to say what is it that makes you push your body to failure... or that extra 5 -10 push ups that burn like hell etc Perhaps this can't be taught but is inherent in the person for whatever reason. I think a lot of it also is unfolding or coming to the realization of what one is really capable of + yes to people

I agree ////////////////// Why? + To strengthen the Will + Exercise mind and body + be able to better defend oneself and others if necessary and fun Mastery would be difficult as you said time + $ etc Unless one goes into teaching or an apprenticeship... One of the problems today I think is everything being so compartmentalized / isolated / divided Society etc / people have just become a part of the machine / factory line / program A man of the past was resourceful and skilled in many things... from building houses, boats, farming, fighting etc hmm relation to MA... I guess your mentioning of the 9-5 too busy etc... and the limitations of this hmm I really don't like the machine haha

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My MA knowledge is little to nothing Though I noticed Systema having some similarity with Aikido... maybe pressure point work too As for internal Ive seen some no contact systema videos where the guy seems to be manipulating the opponents energy and bringing him to the ground without any physical contact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAFuPIUYv3Y ^ Unsure as to the authenticity I imagine the no contact work is similar to pressure point work and cutting off the chi? nerve etc? ... except in a non physical manner. Ninjutsu? What do you practice?

wisdom to protect freedom to fly mind over matter To have power is to be without limitation.

Hm true... I'll start a new thread related

Water fast for 7 days maybe longer + get some sun + go for a long run until you can't feel your legs